I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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The world is now a virus.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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